Upgrades - Version Information does not stick

[mat]

I've encountered what seems to be a bug with the AI 21.0.1. Or I don't understand Upgrade Rules at all.

When I set custom Upgrade Rules we can defined what an old product and a newer product is.
For example: I had a version 11.0.5 and I want to update to 11.1.0.

I set up the rules like this:

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11.0.5 is included in the old product range. I want to upgrade this version.
11.1.0 is not included in the newer product range. I don't want to upgrade if the version is higher than 11.1.0.

These rules will provide the following error if version 11.0.5 is already installed:

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Please find the install.log attached.
Here is a snippet from the log:

Action start 16:57:34: FindRelatedProducts.
MSI (c) (68:E4) [16:57:34:664]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding AI_NEWERPRODUCTFOUND property. Its value is '{C7C42E3A-406B-43A5-B2E9-21F1A5520EE8}'.
MSI (c) (68:E4) [16:57:34:664]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding OLDPRODUCTS property. Its value is '{C7C42E3A-406B-43A5-B2E9-21F1A5520EE8}'.
MSI (c) (68:E4) [16:57:34:664]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding MIGRATE property. Its value is '{C7C42E3A-406B-43A5-B2E9-21F1A5520EE8}'.
Action ended 16:57:34: FindRelatedProducts. Return value 1.
MSI (c) (68:E4) [16:57:34:664]: Doing action: AI_DOWNGRADE
Action start 16:57:34: AI_DOWNGRADE.

Now the part why I think this is a bug. When I close my AI project and reopen it again, the versions in the Upgrade Rules are reset.
Same thing happens when I save and edit directly afterwards.

Please provide guidance on how to make Upgrades properly work.

[Catalin]

Hello and welcome to our forums,

I think you might have misconfigured the rules there.

However, I can not say this for sure as I do not know exactly what you are trying to achieve.

If possible, could you please give me some more details about what your scenario is so I can better assist?

Best regards,
Catalin

[mat]

Sadly that does not seem to be the case. AI has a bug and here is the way to reproduce it:

1) Create a new installer project
2) Go to Upgrades
3) Select "Customize Advanced Installer upgrade rules"
4) Change Max Version of OLDPRODUCTS to 11.0.0
5) Change Min Version of AI_NEWERPRODUCTFOUND to 11.0.0
6) Save the project
7) Reopen any upgrade rule you just set and it will be reset to the default ([|ProductVersion] instead of 11.0.0)
8) Close the project and reopen and the upgrade rules will reflect the changes that do not stick

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[Catalin]

Hello,

Thank you very much for the test-case.

I've tested this and can indeed replicate the issue on my end as well.

It looks like the "Customize Advanced Installer upgrade rules" does not stay after closing&reopening the project and therefore those values are reset.

I will forward this to our dev team and a fix will be available in a future version of Advanced Installer.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

Best regards,
Catalin

[Catalin]

Hello,

This has been fixed in version 21.2 of Advanced Installer.

Best regards,
Catalin